Corn-planter



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A. BUSSEY.

CORN PLANTBR. No. 378,189. Patented Feb. 21. 1888.

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CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of, Letters Patent No. 378,189, dated February 21, 1888.

Application filed August 5, 1887. Serial No. 246,192.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDERSON BUssEY, of the county of Columbia, (Shannan I. O.,) State of Arkansas, have invented a new and Improved Corn-Planter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention pertains to an improvement in corn-planters; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved corn-planter. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line a: m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional elevation of part of the droppingbox, sh owing the outlet. Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional elevation of part of the droppingbox, showing the inlet, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the covering-shovels.

The main frame A is provided with the upwardly-projecting handles 13, secured to the side arms, (1, and strengthened by the cross-rods B and the standards D fastened on the main frame. On the side beams, 0, near their middle, is held the shaft E, on which is placed, to rotate, thccorndroppingbox F. At the front, in the middle of the frame A, is held the plow or opener Lvertically adjustable on said frame A to suit the depth of the furrow to be made for planting.

On the rear ends of the side beams, O, are hung the reversible arms .I, connected with each other at their lower ends by the coveringboard J, provided in its middle, at its lower edge, with a curved recess, J as shown in Fig. 1. This covering-board J is used to close the furrow made by the opening-shovel I, after the corn is dropped into the furrow. The corn-dropping box F is square in cross section, and is provided on each end with a wheel, F, which wheels support the main frame A and rotate the box F when said frame A is drawn forward. The dropping-box F is provided on one side, K,with an opening, K, adapted to be closed bya heavy slide, K (see (No model.)

Fig. 4,) held in suitable bearings on the outside of the side K. The opening K is for filling the dropping-box F with corn.

In each of two opposite sides, L L, of the dropping-box F is formed a groove, L, in which is held a box, N, leading to the outside at one edge of the respective side L of the dropping-box F. The top of the box is covered on the inside with a slide, N, which extends outward and is operated from the outside. In the bottom of the box N is formed an aperture, N", which opens into an aperture, L in the middle of the side L. This opening on the side is not necessary unless the grain is dropped very thick.

The operation is as follows: The droppingbox F is nearly filled with corn through the opening K, which is closed, after being filled, by the slide K". The slide N is then moved outward sufficiently to admit the corn into the box N at its inner end when the respective side L is in a lower position. The cornin the box N will pass partly through the apertures N and L if needed, and partly through the open outer end of the box N, and then drop into the furrow made by the plow or opener I,which furrow is again covered up, after the seed is in it, by the covering-board J, which is then held in the position shown in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2. By adjusting the slide N inward or outward I am enabled to let more or less seed pass into the box N.

In lieu of the coverer J may be used the right and left shovels Q, one of which is shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a planter, the combination, with a frame, a plow or opener,and a covering shovel, of a corn-dropping box rotating on a shaft held upon said frame, said box containing supplemental boxes held in opposite sides thereof, which supplemental boxes communicate with openings in the sides of the dropping or containing box, and are provided with slides adapted to regulate the outflow of the contents of the containing or dropping box, substantially as set forth.

2. In a planter, an angular rotary corn'dropping box having afillingbpening, K, provided h a suitablenever,,dischargeopenings. and supplemental boxesor passages. N3 along its sides and communicating with the interior of the main box beyond the said discharge-openings and leading thereto, substantially as set forth.

3. In a planter, the angular corn-dropping box F, having a filling-opening provided with a suitable cover, discharge-openings L in the middle of its sides, and supplemental boxes or passages N com municatin g with the interior of the main. bioxat oueeogner-theneofi and (11scharg ng at the opposite corner of the same side, and provided with an intermediate opening, N,registeriug with the opening L'fiwhere- I 5 by the corn may be discharged at two points from each supplemental box or passage, substantially as set forth.

ANDERSON BUSSEY.

Witnesses:

Wu. RoBERTsoN, V. H. BUSSEY. 

